What is the best nuclear carving?

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Nuclear carving is a traditional folk micro-carving craft in China. The carving techniques of peach pit, apricot pit, olive pit and walnut have been included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Olivine, walnut stone, apricot stone and peach stone are all discarded, and nuclear carving can be regarded as a magical handicraft. In the place where the stone is oval or oblate and the hickory ridge is the most complicated, the modeling layout of nuclear carving is ten times more difficult than that of plane carving. The author now moves the nuclear carving in the box to "Lele", hoping to win the voice of readers.

Stone, in the eyes of ordinary people, is discarded after tasting fresh fruit, but this kind of small stone (peach stone, apricot stone, olive stone) will turn decay into magic in the hands of micro-carving.

In ancient times, the micro-carving technology in southern China has always had its own characteristics. Especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, traditional crafts have always been exquisite and elegant, showing all kinds of interesting things in the world and life between scales. Among all kinds of crafts, stone carving is unique in the long river of China crafts.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the large-scale sculpture art in China did not develop greatly, but the decorative production of small sculptures and handicrafts was lively and creative.

Among them, peach stone carving, apricot stone carving and olive stone carving are quite distinctive varieties. The conception and carving of their works have reached a very high level of craftsmanship and artistic realm, which is called "micro-carving, wonderful art"

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the micro-carving art of nuclear carving was a must. At that time, it was popular among bureaucrats and businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces to appreciate antique treasures such as bamboo and wood tooth carvings, and the exquisite nuclear carving art was one of the hot spots in people's collection at that time.

It is understood that the core materials of the earliest nuclear carving in the Ming Dynasty were peach pits and apricot pits, and there were no objects carved with olive pits or walnut pits at that time. Judging from the existing nuclear carvings, it was not until the Qing Qianlong period after the Ming Dynasty that the nuclear carvings of flower boats and figures carved with olivine and walnut stone appeared.